Hoda ElMaraghy ( ar, هدى المراغي; born 1945) is an Egyptian-Canadian professor and director of the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) Center at the

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which she founded together with her husband Prof. Waguih ElMaraghy in July 1994. In 1994, she was the first woman to serve as dean of engineering at a Canadian university. She is also the first Canadian woman to obtain a Ph.D. in

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, and ...

. She was appointed as

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(CRC) in manufacturing systems in 2002. She has published more than 450 articles. She received the

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in 2015.

Personal life

She was born as Hoda Abdelkader ElGammal ( ar, هدى عبد القادر الجمال) to a father from

Alexandria Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandria ...

and a mother from

El Mahalla El Kubra El Mahalla El Kubra ( ar, المحلة الكبرى, , , ) – commonly shortened to ' – is the largest city of the Gharbia Governorate and in the Nile Delta, with a population of 535,278 as of 2012. It is a large industrial and agricultural cit ...

. ElMaraghy family of her husband is the same family of

Mustafa al-Maraghi Muhammad Mustafa al-Maraghi ( ar, محمد مصطفى المراغي; 5 March 1881 – 22 August 1945) was an Egyptian reformer and rector of Al-Azhar from El Maragha, Sohag Governorate. Al-Maraghi was active in encouraging reforms within lega ...

, the former rector of Al-Azhar.

Career

ElMaraghy got a Bachelor's with Honours in

from

Cairo University Cairo University ( ar, جامعة القاهرة, Jāmi‘a al-Qāhira), also known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952, is Egypt's premier public university ...

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

. She got a Master's and Ph.D. both in mechanical engineering from

McMaster University McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main McMaster campus is on of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale, adjacent to the Royal Botanical Ga ...

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in 1972 and 1976 respectively. She was a Professor and founding Director of the Flexible Manufacturing Systems Centre at McMaster University until joining the University of Windsor as the Dean of Engineering in 1994. Her research on flexible manufacturing has helped manufacturers around the world adapt and respond to market changes.

References

External links

Hoda ElMaraghy on ResearchGate
{{DEFAULTSORT:ElMaraghy, Hoda 1945 births Cairo University alumni Academic staff of University of Windsor Members of the Order of Ontario Egyptian emigrants to Canada Canadian mechanical engineers Living people McMaster University alumni Canada Research Chairs Members of the Order of Canada People from Windsor, Ontario